More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 9

It is throughout an animal tale, the touch at the end of the shaking the paws and the name Scrapefoot are too _volkstümlich_ to have been conscious variations on Southey's tale.

Who acts: version, Southey · What happens: be, shake, have, tell · To what, where: _ volkstümlich, conscious variations, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (version, Southey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tale	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tale	cop
3	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	6 tale	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tale	compound
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 touch	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 touch	det
9	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tale	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touch	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 paws	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paws	det
15	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 paws	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paws	det
17	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 end	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 name	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 name	det
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 paws	conj
21	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 name	appos
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 volkstümlich	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 _	advmod
24	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 volkstümlich	amod
25	volkstümlich	volkstümlich	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tale	conj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 volkstümlich	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 have	mark
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 volkstümlich	acl
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 variations	cop
30	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 variations	amod
31	variations	variation	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 tale	case
33	Southey	Southey	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 tale	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Southey	case
35	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 variations	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	version			throughout a animal tale and _ volkstümlich	the touch at the end of the shaking paws and the name nmod	tree rules
2	shake	gerund						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	version not said here	_ volkstümlich				tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	version not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle		conscious variations	Southey's tale			tree rules
6	tell		Southey					nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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